The US First Lady visited Mulberry School for Girls in East London as a part of a visit to the UK to promote her ‘Let Girls Learn’ initiative, which aims to remove barriers that keep 62 million girls out of education around the world.
Data on the latest inspection results for English schools, published by Ofsted on 16 June 2015, shows that the proportion of schools rated good or outstanding is at its highest level on record.
Ofted has published new guidance entitled “The Common Inspection Framework: education, skills and early years” which includes changes that will come into effect from September 2015.
Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute John Hattie has warned that some of the UK government’s key education policies, such as performance related pay for teachers and increased academy conversion, are a “distraction” that will only have a “minimal” impact on student’s learning.
The Department for Education has announced that from September, GCSE subjects will focus on Baccalaureate subjects. A new grading will also be introduced in 2017 which replaces the A to U system with a 9 to 1 scale.
From September, Ofsted will inspect good schools and further education and skills providers under a new short inspection model - the biggest change to education inspection for more than two decades.
The 2015 Birthday Honours list, published on Friday 12 June 2015, recognises 108 people for their service to education and children’s services including teachers, school governors, foster carers and many others.
Plans will be put in place to encourage pupils to study more academic GCSE qualifications by using performance tables that will monitor schools who fail to enrol pupils in English baccalaureate subjects.
